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Maybe Akron City Schools can't afford the rent now? Tha is amamzing schedule. How do you motivate kids if you never play a "home game. Itwas alwayssad that Kenmore (no lights) and Ellett were the only City teamswith stadiumsand theRubber Bowl used to havei Friday night doubleheaders. NowwithKenmpre and Garfield combining, where to play?

Big Clayton is running in the USA National Championships...qualified for tonight's final in the 1500 meters and also tomorrow's 800. Hot in California!! 108 yesterday 94 today. Jackie Siefring in HJ event of Heptathalon and NCAA champ Matt Ludwig no-heighted in the PV...good luck Clayton!!

Great info ME_87, thanks for the posts!

C'mon down to Info on a Friday night and watch them along with another 500 people. You think the Zips have attendance issues?????? I'd rather walk over to Cub Cadet and watch Friday night Zip soccer, but that's just me...

Can't wait to see more of the same "when you just killed a Golden Flash!" (not literally, of course...p,c, disclaimer here)

Hey there! Did we let this idea die or are we still thinking of doing something?

Blessed that at least one got the school's name right!!

Thanks Boys...

There's some pretty ripped guys out there...was that Goodyear Met?

He he he....

I've been on a rant the last few months about the ABJ and especially this weekend - see post in other forum - but this is ridiculous. As discussed, the Zips have a new NCAA Champion, four new All Americans. Ziprulz points out the tennis team is ranking way high, the athletic teams wins trophies for overall sports in all categories, lots of academic all stars...but the ABJ/Ohio.com can only find this piece of lintpunt to write a crapsandwich article about something that ALL schools do to try to find a new coach quickly. Did this mental midget even check to see how much OSU just spent to find their new BB coach? How about looking at that article earlier on the Plain Dealer page and see how overpaid some of the Big Schools coaches in sports like rowing and fencing make. Better yet, how about the ABJ opening up their books for all to see how much they pay/spend on finding new CEOs or Publishers, or whatever they hire? I guarantee they didn't find their managing editor on LinkedIn. How much did they pay a search firm to find the current leaders at this dying news fishwrap?

Fantastic finishes by our two Zip women. Jackie Siefring finishes 5th in the Heptathalon and Nikki Manson finished 5th in the high jump. Fantastic! Two All Americans on both sides - McClain and Ludwig for the guys and Manson and Siefring for the women. 4 first team All Americans! Good showing for the Zips, and proud of all 6 that made the trip.

Tough night for Zip men. Stine no heights at first bar in high jump and Phil Jagers again under-performs on big stage. Not taking anything from these guys, great athltes and they made it to the Nationals, but thought we'd see scoring from both... UPDATE - Jackie Siefring in solid 8th out of 24 after 4 events in Heptathalon...3 events tomorrow.

So...just read that this is a REAL MAC league match, they join league immediately, not 2018. Great News!

Yeah skip....I mean you used THREE superlatives in 9 words here...More ways, not just one, most people, not just some, and even imagine instead of just imagine....so it must be something?

Wonderful! Get an early glimpse of the MAC's new sixth team, at home, on a Friday night under the lights....heart of the season too. Three home matches in 8 days with Cleve State and Notre Dame book-ending this one. Should make for some good football for the home Rowdies and fans.

I sent this e-mail to dwerbeck at Ohio.com just now.....Shameful lack of anything on an NCAA DI National Champion... Good morning, I know you get complaints from the U of A faithful about coverage of Zips sports, but would just like to add my two cents here... Matt Ludwig, a sophomore from the University of Akron won the NCAA Division I Track & Field Championship in the pole vault. The second vaulter from Akron to do so in the past three Championships outdoors. That was Wednesday night. I realize the Beacon/Ohio.com think they need to be the "bringer of all things Cleveland" to their readers and on-line viewers, but it sure would have been nice to notice this accomplishment. I could even understand a little if Matt wasn't from the area, but he lives in Chardon, and attended Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin HS. Certainly George Thomas or even an intern could have taken the press release and wrote something. One of these days maybe you and the decision makers at the Beacon/Ohio.com might wake up to the fact that there is a segment of us out here that don't need a daily update on Ohio State sports, nor all things happening in Cleveland sports, since there are other papers/websites that fit that need. Maybe give a local flavor/taste to things and support your local University, and it might just reap an increase in readership and revenue. Maybe not, but have you at least tried it? Thanks for letting me air my concern

DeAndre (miss his honey badger hair!) sure looked better last night when they brought him up from FB to press the issue more. His assist and the passes on the second goal by The Kid was/were pretty good....

Outdoors - From 1970 through 1999 we only scored on the men's side once - 1982 - and we had 2 points that season. We scored 2 points again in 2000 (64th), then didn't score again until 2005 when we got 5.5 points (45th). We had 4 points in 2006 (46th), missed out in 2007, then had 2 points in 2008 (67th). Zero for 2009. 3 points in 2010 (55th), 2 in 2011 (58th), and Z for Zero in 2012. In 2013 we scored 6 points (38th), 11 points in 2014 (20th), 16 in 2015 (12th!) and 10 last year (23rd). So long answer to your question - I believe the team record is 16 points. With Matt's win and Terrell's 4th we pick up 15 points, and we have Cody Stine in High Jump and Phil Jagers in Discus yet to compete on Friday. Cody could surprise, but Phil should score, if he ever gets over the stage fright he seems to get in big-time events. Of stops looking over his shoulder at his Big Brother Reggie at the hated Kent-State-Still-Sucks.....

YES!!! We have another Gold Medalist in Track and Field! Matt Ludwig just won the NCAA Pole Vault with a jump of 18' 4 and 1/2 inch!!!! Hit the third and final jump at the height, beating a Cinci Bearcat. He's trying now at 18 - 10 1/2 but it doesn't matter. ZACH - you beat me to the punch!!! And Terrell McLain just finished 4th in the Long Jump, with two of his best jumps coming in the final 3, he jumped 2 feet better in the last two jumps!!

Well, at least they'll be two of us there...that's a start

I got one of my wishes, just found out. I was putting the men's soccer schedule into my calendar, and also the women's, and I find that we once again will have a men/women doubleheader, first time in like 5 years. Sunday September 24th - Men vs. UMass Lowell at noon and women vs. Western Michigan at 3. Maybe a few fans will stick around and give some support to the distaff side. I f we only had a Marketing Dept. who could put together something for this other than "first 100 students get a free something they'll throw away tomorrow." Maybe something for the faithful Men fans to stick around for....

Anybody know of a local establishment showing Thursday night's USA vs. T & T on FS1? If so, anyone up for a meet and greet (and view and brew?)?

Stevey Me Boy, I like this idea. I mean, I didn't "Like this", I mean I think the MAC Men's non-rev sports could benefit greatly from this. Track and Field is getting close to being a 2 team sport. Men's swimming and diving like-wise. Who knows about wrestling, gymnastics, etc.? You might make a good AD some day afterall....

"Tons of People at the Spring Game?" If every person there weighed a pound, we would have had a ton and three quarters....